Tag: Oxfam
Trump cuts funds for World Health Org as Oxfam warns pandemic...
Oxfam America said the cuts slash “any hopes for the responsible international cooperation and solidarity that is critical to save lives and restore the global economy.”
Climate change forces 20 million people to flee each year, Oxfam...
At the U.N. climate talks in Madrid, environmental and development groups are pushing to establish a fund to help countries already reeling from climate change.
26 billionaires own as much as world’s 3.8 billion poorest people
“Inequality is not inevitable,” the report says, “it’s a political choice.”
US leads world in inequality, and it is getting worse
“Inequality is not inevitable.” Yet the United States continues to widen the inequality gap.
New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we...
Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.
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Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become
If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.
Pandemic profiteering: Amazon caught price gouging as Jeff Bezos’s wealth soared to $200 billion
“They are looking to maximize profit during a pandemic.”
Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study finds
The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
Supreme Court: A superstore for the super-rich?
This is America, after all, where rich white men can buy whatever they want, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.